KLA Reviews

Low compensation - When answering a question on 7% inflation (CY22) and how KLA is keeping up with it, CEO responded those who work in KLA shouldn't be motivated by compensation. For those who do look for financial motivations should look for other companies. This slipped out 40 mins after saying contradicting statements that KLA is ensuring compensations are competitive. Age Diversity is a problem and often creates project/product hiccups. COVID overworked environment starting to take a toll and compensation is not enough for the extra amount of work put in. They are giving new hires higher base pay but the medium projection will equalize. Some employees who stays long term doesn't really care about company's success. Those who do leaves early due to better opportunities or KLA's inability to keep talent. This company has management problems and cannot be fixed if the head is behaving like that.

1) No defined sets of job responsibilities, no boundary in terms of job roles and extreme overlapping of job responsibilities & workload 2) No structured training given to new employees in terms of giving an introduction to team members, training agenda, expectations & new joiners are thrown into a deep mess of operations 3) people managers require leadership mindset, they act as only task assigners without adding any other value to the product, system and people. They need training to become people managers. 4) HR systems not helpful in identifying opportunities within the company in different departments. As soon as employee indicates desire to switch a job function , without warning is thrown into a PIP program to pressurize with just more work and without considering the benefits to the company & actual deliverables against KPIs 5) do not join CPG/ASD MDE team until some positive change has been made